Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments
The book also provides a forward-looking summary on potential research directions. As such,it provides a valuable resource for urban ecologists, urban ecology students, landscape architects, city planners, decision makers and anyone with an interest in urban ornithology and bird conservation. Moreov...
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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Table of Contents:
- Indicators of the effects of the urban green infrastructure on birds (Herrando, S.)
- Richness and species of conservation concern in parks of Italian towns (Sorace, A. & Gustin, M.)
- Concluding remarks (Hedblom, M. & Murgui, E.)
- Green infrastructure in urban areas: how does it affect bird populations? (Chiquet, C.)
- Social and ecological factors determining the diversity of birds in residential landscapes (Goddard, M. & Leman, S.)
- Facilitating Feathered Friends – Improving Avifauna Promotion in Post-construction Urban Planning Procedures (Daniels, G.)
- The role of invasive plant species in urban avian conservation (Gleditsch, J.)
- Birds and wastelands (Meffert, P.)
- Section 4: ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS
- Pollutants in urbanized areas – direct and indirect effects on bird populations (Kekkonen, J.)
- Going wild: Using light-loggers to investigate the effects of light pollution on wild animals (Dominoni, D.)
- Bird diversity – panacea for human well-being in cities? (Hedblom, M. & Gunnarsson, B.)
- Becoming citizens: avian adaptations to urban life (Macias, C., Suarez, M. & López, I.)
- Section 5: URBAN BIRD CONSERVATION
- How to use monitoring data for conservation (Louwe, J.)
- Preface
- Introduction (Murgui, E. & Hedblom, M.)
- Section 1: GENERAL PATTERNS AND PROCESSES
- Global patterns and drivers of urban birds (Aronson, M. et al.)
- Birds and urbanization: Spatial and temporal patterns emerging from the southern Neotropics (Bellocq, I.)
- The role of landscape scale factors in shaping the composition of urban birds communities (Litteral, J. & Shochat, E.)
- Non-indigenous birds and urbanized environments (Sol, D.)
- Mechanisms of behavioural changes in urban animals: the role of evolution and plasticity (Miranda, A.C.)
- Section 2: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
- Ornithological atlases of towns and cities in Europe (Luniak, M.)
- Counting birds in urban areas (van Heezik, Y. & Seddon, P.)
- Long-Term Urban Avian Research (Ficino, M. & Magle, S.)
- Section 3: URBAN BIRD HABITATS MANAGEMENT
- Management of urban nature and its impact on bird fauna (Heyman, E. & Gunnarsson, B.)